Orangutan

Orangutan treats facial wound with medicinal plant in documented first – National

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In what scientists are calling a first for any non-human species, a Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia was seen creating and applying a medicinal paste made from local plants to a wound on his face. According to a newly published study about the observation, scientists witnessed Rakus, an adult male orangutan living in Gunung Leuser National … Read more

medicinal plant healing: How Orangutan, also known as ‘person of the forest’, used a plant to completely heal big wound below his eyes

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A male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus sustained a facial wound below the right eye, apparently during a fight with another male orangutan at the Suaq Balimbing research site, a protected rainforest area in Indonesia. What Rakus did three days later really caught the attention of scientists. Researchers on Thursday described observing how Rakus appeared to … Read more